Another thing that stood out to me was _how_ cheap the movie looked. In the for example in "telephone-business" scene, the computers on the tables were fakes was easily seen, and the movie contiues along this line. Even if the budget was as low as it seems to have been, other films have done a better job at hiding this than this horror flick did. But lousy scriptwriting around the excellent music and a cheap, cheap budget got the movie off to a bad start.
Still, it could have been saved by nostalgia, but that was also not meant to happen. I won't go into the rehashing of scenes that worked in the first part, because others have already done so, but I felt like they were just going though the moves in this film:
And who the hell got the idea of including the kid? This was actually the most annoying thing about the movie. I wanted to see serious Blues Brothers action, not some comedic sidekick following the big guys lead (I liked John Goodman in this movie, really did) and stealing or filling scenes that could have been better employed. No wait, seeing the rest of the movie, they probably couldn't have been. Still, the kid annoyed the heck out of me. Sigh! If only this one had measured up the original ...
So, I agree with Puddleglum's assessment: Watch the original, listen to the soundtrack of BB 2000, but skip the flick!